Idris
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #694 for boys in 2025, 391 births
Given to boys 99.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 391 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,031since 1914
Idris over time
Rank among boys' names. Idris has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #694 | 391 |
| 2024 | — | #740 | 348 | |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | #790 | 319 |
| 2022 | — | #768 | 329 | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #855 | 274 |
| 2020 | — | #828 | 277 | |
| 2019 | — | #851 | 263 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #958 | 216 |
| 2017 | — | #1,049 | 191 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,096 | 179 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,287 | 138 | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #1,237 | 147 |
| 2013 | — | #1,255 | 139 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,258 | 140 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,440 | 114 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,565 | 101 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,546 | 106 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,932 | 74 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,034 | 68 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,375 | 52 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,297 | 51 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,697 | 39 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,206 | 49 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,685 | 35 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,429 | 40 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,993 | 29 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,865 | 29 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,094 | 44 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,933 | 47 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,933 | 46 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,140 | 38 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,347 | 33 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,123 | 37 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,532 | 28 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,683 | 25 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,309 | 18 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,989 | 20 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,367 | 25 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,641 | 20 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,429 | 22 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,071 | 27 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,581 | 38 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,085 | 25 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,700 | 34 | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #1,548 | 39 |
| 1980 | — | #1,726 | 33 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,319 | 49 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,487 | 39 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,367 | 44 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,828 | 27 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,361 | 18 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,983 | 22 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,612 | 29 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,473 | 33 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,987 | 21 | |
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| 1951 | — | #3,066 | 7 | |
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| 1914 | — | #3,264 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Idris! It came in at #3,264, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1950, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Idris is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#513 · 1 in 3,062
- New Jersey#576 · 1 in 3,775
- Minnesota#599 · 1 in 3,499
- Illinois#677 · 1 in 4,584
- New York#682 · 1 in 5,000
Best ever in a state: #358 in Illinois, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | #513 | 9 | 1 in 3,062 |
| New Jersey | #576 | 11 | 1 in 3,775 |
| Minnesota | #599 | 8 | 1 in 3,499 |
| Illinois | #677 | 14 | 1 in 4,584 |
| New York | #682 | 20 | 1 in 5,000 |
| Michigan | #819 | 8 | 1 in 5,968 |
| Washington | #955 | 5 | 1 in 7,407 |
| California | #956 | 24 | 1 in 9,320 |
| Ohio | #1,052 | 6 | 1 in 9,887 |
| Georgia | #1,076 | 6 | 1 in 8,962 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,195 | 5 | 1 in 11,846 |
| Florida | #1,485 | 6 | 1 in 16,323 |
| Texas | #1,631 | 9 | 1 in 20,580 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Idris
- 46 spots since 2024 (#740 → #694)
- 134 spots since 2020 (#828 → #694)
- 593 spots since 2015 (#1,287 → #694)
- Biggest jump: 107 spots in 2019 (#958 → #851)
- Biggest drop: 27 spots in 2021 (#828 → #855)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 2025 at #694 (391 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 2018–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,368 boys born in 2025 were named Idris (0.02%)
- 38.5% of all boys named Idris (1,938) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,264 (1914) | #3,264 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 7 | #3,066 (1951) | #3,066 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 282 | #1,319 (1979) | #1,713 |
| 1980s | 283 | #1,548 (1981) | #2,114 |
| 1990s | 345 | #1,933 (1997) | #2,396 |
| 2000s | 543 | #1,546 (2009) | #2,319 |
| 2010s | 1,628 | #851 (2019) | #1,200 |
| 2020s | 1,938 | #694 (2025) | #779 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Idris in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 10,602 of them was named Idris, which outranked 92.3% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,090Kain180
- #1,090Malakhi180
- #1,090Vladimir180
- #1,096Idris179
- #1,096Boden179
- #1,096Campbell179
- #1,096Kabir179
- #1,102Forest178
- #1,102Stone178
- #1,102Zahir178
Tied with 5 names at #1,096; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.